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JetBrains Terminal Adopts libghostty Engine

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JetBrains Terminal Adopts libghostty Engine
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JetBrains Terminal Adopts libghostty Engine

JetBrains is replacing its long-running JediTerm emulator with libghostty in the 2026.3 terminal across its IDEs. The upgrade improves compatibility with AI coding agents, Neovim, tmux, and modern terminal protocols.

// ANALYSIS

This is a major quality-of-life upgrade for millions of developers who run increasingly sophisticated tools inside JetBrains IDEs.

  • –Kitty keyboard protocol support fixes multi-line prompts and keybindings for Claude Code, Codex, Pi, fish, and Vim.
  • –Nearly 50 additional control sequences improve rendering for ncurses apps, dashboards, file managers, and other TUIs.
  • –libghostty’s reusable architecture gives JetBrains a modern terminal core while preserving IDE-level rendering and integrations.
  • –The rollout is not risk-free: early builds have reported failures on RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8 systems using glibc 2.28.
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DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-10-27

PUBLISHED

1h ago

2026-10-27

RELEVANCE

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